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GENTRIFUGAL HONEY EXTRAGTOR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FLORANOE WILLIAMS, OF SENECA, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO L. S.I-IASKINS, OF SAME PLACE.

CENTRIFUGAL HONEY-EXTRACTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,151, dated November15,1892.

Application filed August 29, 1892- .To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FLORANOE WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Seneca, in the county of Crawford and State of WVisconsin,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Centrifugal Honey-Extractors; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form apart of this specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvementsinhoney-extractors; and it has for its object to provide asimply-constructed automatically-reversible device of this character.

To this end and to such others as the invention may pertain the sameconsists in the extractor having the construction and combination ofparts hereinafter specified, and

shown in the accompanying drawings, in

which- Figure 1 is a vertical section of my extractor, and Fig. 2 is ahorizontal section upon the line 00 w of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates a cylindrical vesselacross whose top extends diametrically abar a. Passing through this bara and journaled therein and journaled, also, at the bottom of the vesselA isa shaft B, located at the center of said vessel. The end of theshaft above the bar a is provided with a crank b, by which it may berevolved.

Mounted upon the shaft B at its lower end, so as to be capable of freelyturning thereon, is the comb-holder-carrying frame, comprising twodiametrically-extending bars 0 c, crossing each other at right angles, aring 0', uniting the ends of said bars, four upright bars 0 rising fromthe ring 0 at points midway of the ends of the bars 0, and a second ring0 attached to the upper ends of the bars 0 and being located a shortdistance below the top of the vessel A..

The comb holders or baskets D may be of any preferred construction and,as shown,

are four in number, being pivotally mounted Berial No. 444,357. (Nomodel.)

in the frame just described. At its lower end each of the holders isprovided with a pintle cl, which is journaled in a hole in one of thearms 0 near its juntion with the ring 0, while at its upper end is apintle d, that enters an opening provided in an inwardly-projecting lugd on the ring 0 To automatically swing the holders D in one direction orthe other, according to the direction of rotation of the shaft B, eachcarries near its upper end, concentric with its pintles, a gear-segmentE, consisting of half a wheel, which is adapted to mesh with arack-segment F, carried on the inner face of the ring G, that is rigidlyattached to and carried by the shaft B, through the medium of adiametrically-arranged bar H. The ring G is capable of a certain degreeof rotation independently of the h0lder-carrying frame, which is limitedby the engagement of the outer ends of the holders with the rings 0 and0 It will therefore be seen that if the holders are not in engagementwith the rings 0' and c the first effect of rotating the shaft B is tomove said ring G and cause it, through the racks F and segments E, toswing said holders on their pivots until their free ends strike therings 0 and 0 before any revolution of the holders upon the shaft B asan axis can take place. In order to reverse the holders, it is simplynecessary to reverse the direction of rotation of the shaft B,whereupon, through the rack-carryingring and the segments E, the holderswill be instantly swung on their pintles from one side to the other. Thereversal ofthe comb-holders is thus perfectly automatic and necessitatesno handling of the same by the operator. The ring G preferably comprisesa vertical portion carrying the racks F and a horizontal portion whichextends out over the racks and the ring 0.

It will be seen that my device is exceedingly simple and thoroughlyefficient in action. Of course the number of comb-holders may be variedand other structural changes made without departure from my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and. desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

In a centrifugal honey-extractor, the combination, with the comb-holderframe coinjournaled in said frame at its lower end, sub- 10 prising twoor more bars at its lower end, a stantialiy as shown and describedmndfor the ring uniting the same, upright bars, and a purpose specified.ring uniting them at their upper ends, of Intestimony whereoflaifix mysignaturein 5 comb-holders pivoted to said frame at points presence oftwo witnesses.

midway between the upright bars, a gear-seg- FLORANCE WILLIAMS. mentcarried by the pivot of each holder at Vitnesses: its upper end, a ringhaving a rack for each L. S. HASKINS,

segment, and a shaft carrying said ring and V. G. PALMER.

